Great arguments. See ya.

You’re generalizing here. “The Japanese” aren’t a monolith. There are some Japanese who are unrepentant, but not all. Official government statements have never been retracted by those who speak on behalf of the government. Individuals have said stupid things, sure. But the idea that “The Japanese” taken as a whole…

Officials speaking on behalf of the Japanese gov’t had never retracted any apologies. Individuals have. Very different.

What are the statutes that would provide this ‘legal accountability’? How would ‘direct reparations’ differ from those given by the South Korean government in 1978 (belatedly, 13 years after Japan had actually paid reparations)?

Who are you to judge their sincerity?
What do you mean by ‘legal accountability’? Japan concluded a peace treaty with South Korea in 1965, which included reparations.
What is a ‘better’ apology?
Are you yourself a Korean born before 1945, and are you able to judge their standards for apology?
Have you not considered the…

Lots of bullshit in the post, even more in the comments. Let’s get these out of the way:

“Japan has never apologized”: Not true. Japanese leaders have apologized many times for wartime atrocities. A 10 second google search would provide plenty.

What do you mean by ‘truly’ apologize? Are you saying that the Japanese apologies of the past weren’t true? By whose standard?

And plays right into NK’s hands. Kinda makes you wonder about the whole ‘peace’ thing, doesn’t it?

“NK is much more so SK’s enemy, and they’re attempting diplomacy”

The Norks are playing the SoKos for saps, capitalizing on some irrational olympics emotion to portray themselves as conciliatory. Let’s see what happens if one of these ‘unified Korean’ athletes decides she or he would prefer to stay in the southern half of the entity, rather than return to the northern part of it.

“probability algorithms to determine plays”

Points taken, but that whole sequence was set up by I believe it was Agholor running out of bounds and stopping the clock. I think if he stays inbounds somehow, it may have been possible to simply take a knee after a few runs.

“Sure you can”

And imagine how that would’ve sounded coming from Troy Aikman, who never met a conservative call he didn’t agree with. As though an entire century’s worth of data from football games isn’t worth looking at to determine what might actually be the best thing to do.

By far the best part of the game (other than the Deflatriots losing, of course) was the decision to go for it on 4th down in their own territory late in the game, when a more conventional (read: incurious) HC would’ve punted and ‘put the game in the hands of his defense’ - ie, surrender to fate and shrug his shoulders…

Er, no. The discussion was focussed purely on the SB as the league’s showcase. The SB matters A LOT to the NFL, and since the merger it always has.

“they have a conscious [sic] about player safety”

It’s SUPER cute you think factors such as injuries and lack of preparation time would have no influence on the possibility of maximizing revenue by keeping the product on the field at least semi-credible. And it’s absolutely ADORABLE you think the NFL isn’t smart enough to at least take this into account.

“This column exists as an argument to get rid of the extra week before the Super Bowl”

The extra week is for the teams, not the media or the hype-building crap. No coach wants to prepare for a SB with only 1 week. Also recovery from injury is a factor, again something the teams care about a great deal: one often…

Would it be luck if a brand new team playing a sport that is a novelty in its own market went deep into the playoffs, or would it show how badly most sports franchises are run?